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Topic: Space. The Final Frontier. (Read 46122 times)

The joke could go either way- agency helping small business, good example of well spent money, or government blowing money on enriching insiders who form small businesses (preferably with service disabled female minorities as partners located in disadvantaged areas like Hawaii with an ANC ownership stake thrown in for balance- but don't tell anyone it's just a Raytheon subsidiary)

Sitting at a table 50 feet under the sea, legendary ocean explorer Sylvia Earle lamented what she believes is a shortsighted federal decision to cut off funding for the world’s only undersea laboratory....

But the federal budget crunch and cost overruns in NOAA’s satellite program have put pressure on the “wet side” of the agency’s budget — its ocean programs. Funding for the national undersea research program plunged from $7.4 million in fiscal year 2011 to $3.98 million in fiscal 2012, before the administration slated it for elimination in fiscal year 2013.

By contrast, NOAA has asked for more than $2 billion to fund its weather satellite program in 2013 — a $163 million increase from the current fiscal year.